Millions of people throughout the world face an isolating, embarrassing, and damaging struggle every day from excessive sweating. Sweaty palms, sweaty feet, sweat soaked armpits and dripping foreheads--hyperhidrosis takes a heavy toll on a person's life.

Excessive sweating is a daily debilitating struggle that negatively affects everything from careers and education, to relationships and having fun.

If you suffer from extremely sweaty underarms, hands, or feet, or from an excessively sweaty brow, you may think that no one understands. You may think that you’re alone. You’re not. Millions of people around the world suffer the effects of hyperhidrosis every day - just like you do.

There is finally an effective surgical breakthrough for the treatment of excessive sweating! Excessive sweating of the hands, feet, and face, excessive facial blushing, or any combination of these conditions is known as hyperhidrosis. The cure is available and in practice at The Center for Hyperhidrosis in Los Angeles, California. Here, leading expert Dr. Rafael Reisfeld can often times eliminate the discomfort and embarrassment of excessive sweating once and for all with a simple surgical procedure.

The cure for excessive hand sweating (palmar hyperhidrosis), known as Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS), is a finely-tuned and proven surgical procedure that takes advantage of the latest endoscopic techniques. Dr. Reisfeld performs the ETS procedure regularly, virtually on a daily basis, and is considered a leading authority in this field. Dr. Reisfeld is one of the most experienced surgeons in the highly specialized ETS procedure helping thousands of people experience life without excessive sweating.

How it Works

ETS is the only procedure available that provides the possibility for a permanent cure of palmar hyperhidrosis.

The procedure is proven to be safe and effective.

Dr. Reisfeld is highly experienced, performing the procedure on almost a daily basis.

Patients are able to leave the same day of the procedure.

Patients are able to return to their normal daily routine within a short time.

Throughout the average day, our bodies naturally perspire as a way to regulate heat. In some people, natural perspiration is excessive in the face and hands. This condition is known as hyperhidrosis (Sometimes misspelled as hyperhydrosis) and is defined as the production of perspiration beyond what is necessary to cool the body.

The process of sweating is controlled by the Sympathetic Nervous System. This involuntary nervous system maintains the five million or so sweat glands throughout the body. In fact, about two-thirds of our body's sweat glands are located in the hands alone. The answer to the problem of hyperhidrosis lies within these nerves. Doctors have found that "supercharged" nerves cause excessive sweating.

Khoo Ai Ling is a happy, healthy 25-year old media executive. In the past, there was one thing that bothered and sometimes embarrassed her - that was having to shake someone’s hand. At times you would be able to see dripping beads of sweat on her palms.

For the last two years, Ai Ling had wanted to do something about her sweaty palms. In May this year, Ai Ling decided to have her condition treated. She went to see Dr Lee Kheng Hin, a consultant neurosurgeon at Gleneagles Medical Centre. Dr Lee had already earned himself a reputation for doing a minimally invasive operation to treat sweaty palms. The procedure, called video endoscopic sympathectomy, requires small cuts in the armpits so that an endoscope hooked up to a miniature video camera can be used. Ai Ling was impressed because getting rid of sweaty palms would not mean getting a massive scar.